You can also gather useful equipment from wrecked objects around the planets, most important of which is the Small Battery as mentioned earlier. Next, place the platform and printer near the base, close enough to extend one of the power lines into the platform so that the printer can be used.

Place the Oxygenator onto the open base Tier-2 slot, this will provide a flow of oxygen along the tether lines we will be using. All you will have at first is an empty backpack with a base and a landing pad, interact with the pad by pressing and select the green button with or by hovering the cursor over it and pressing, this will drop a platform, printer, and Oxygenator. With all that out of the way, we can begin officially. Later into the game, you will start gathering resources, if you ever see wreckage with a Small Battery on it, grab it regardless of your backpack room, these are the most important items early on and late in the game. The first thing to note are the large structures scattered on the planet surface when you are dropping take note as to the closest one, this will make the first planet much easier in the long run (if you need to set a marker of sorts noting its direction). PRELIMINARY NOTE PLEASE READ BEFORE STARTING: After completing the tutorial we will start a fresh file, this will play a short cutscene of your pod entering the planet's atmosphere and touching down.

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